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Genesis 10:8

American Standard Version

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

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Genesis 10:8 in other translations

Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

Genesis 10:8 · World English Bible

Genesis 10:8 in context

  1. 6And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.
  2. 7And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
  3. 8And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
  4. 9He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah: wherefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Jehovah.
  5. 10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.